Twin Rocks (Antarctica)
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 25 ′ S , 161 ° 41 ′ E | |
The Twin Rocks (English for twin rocks ) are two neighboring cliffs in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise 10 km east of the halfway nunatak from the Lower Staircase of the Skelton Glacier . They represent an important landmark on the ascent over the glacier to the polar plateau .
The New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave them their descriptive name.
Web links
- Twin Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Twin Rocks on geographic.org (English)